Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2007
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springer.com J.N. Kok, J. Koronacki, R. Lopez de Mantaras, S. Matwin, D. Mladenic (Eds.) Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2007 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007, Proceedings Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence The two premier annual European conferences in the areas of machine learning and data mining have been collocated ever since the ?rst joint conference in Freiburg, 2001. The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) traces its origins to 1986, when the ?rst European Working Session on Learning was held in Orsay, France. The European Conference on Principles and Practice of KnowledgeDiscoveryinDatabases(PKDD) was? rstheldin1997inTrondheim, Norway. Over the years, the ECML/PKDD series has evolved into one of the largest and most selective international conferences in machine learning and data mining. In 2007, the seventh collocated ECML/PKDD took place during September 17–21 on 2007, XXIV, 644 p. the centralcampus of WarsawUniversityand in the nearby Staszic Palace of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The conference for the third time used a hierarchical reviewing process. We Printed book nominated 30 Area Chairs, each of them responsible for one sub-?eld or several closely related Softcover research topics. Suitable areas were selected on the basis of the submission statistics for ECML 114,99 € | £103.50 | $159.00 /PKDD 2006 and for last year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006) to [1]123,04 € (D) | 126,49 € (A) | CHF ensure a proper load balance amongtheAreaChairs.AjointProgramCommittee(PC) 153,65 wasnominatedforthe two conferences, consisting of some 300 renowned researchers, mostly eBook proposed by the Area Chairs. This joint PC, the largest of the series to date, allowed us to 96,29 € | £82.50 | $119.00 exploit synergies and deal competently with topic overlaps between ECML and PKDD. ECML [2]96,29 € (D) | 96,29 € (A) | CHF /PKDD 2007 received 592 abstract submissions. As in previous years, 122,50 toassistthereviewersandtheAreaChairsintheir?nalrecommendationauthors had the opportunity to Available from your library or communicate their feedback after the reviewing phase. springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Printed eBook for just € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy Order online at springer.com / or for the Americas call (toll free) 1-800-SPRINGER / or email us at: [email protected]. / For outside the Americas call +49 (0) 6221-345-4301 / or email us at: [email protected]. The first € price and the £ and $ price are net prices, subject to local VAT. Prices indicated with [1] include VAT for books; the €(D) includes 7% for Germany, the €(A) includes 10% for Austria. Prices indicated with [2] include VAT for electronic products; 19% for Germany, 20% for Austria. All prices exclusive of carriage charges. Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted. [3] No discount for MyCopy. Part of .